Budget 2014

The list includes Raj Chetty, Harvard University professor and the
co-founder of India's largest online marketplace Snapdeal, Micromax
co-founder and CEO Rahul Sharma, Snapdeal
Co-Founder and CEO Kunal Bahl and Twitter's General counsel
and the only woman on the company's executive team Vijaya Gadde.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has a tough task ahead as fiscal deficit in the
first two months of 2014-15 has already touched a staggering Rs 2.4 lakh
crore, constituting as much as 45.6 per cent of Chidambaram's estimate of the
entire financial year.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley made an allocation of Rs 100 crore for a scheme
to provide every farmer a soil health card in a mission mode and said two
agriculture research institutions of excellence will be established in Assam
and Jharkhand with an initial sum of Rs 100 crore.

Besides the announcement of setting up of several new medical facilities including four AIIMS-like institutions, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
said Free Drug Service and Free Diagnosis Service is a priority for the
Centre.

The Budget hinges on domestic and foreign investments and Finance
Secretary Arvind Mayaram said he was sure that Foreign Direct Investment inflows next year would be higher after the introduction of the
liberalisation regime.

Jaitley eased the tax burden of the middle class
by raising the income tax exemption and investment limits by Rs 50,000,
raised duties on cigarettes and sugary drinks, widened the service tax
base and announced measures to spur growth manufacturing.